Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s movement to vacate has given Home Democrats leverage over Speaker Mike Johnson to get Ukraine assist handed.
Greene’s movement to vacate is as a result of she is outraged over the truth that 2/3 of the Home handed a invoice to maintain the federal government funded.
Home Democrats have been prepared for Greene to make good on her risk for weeks.
Throughout a March 10, 2024 look om CBS’s Face The Nation, Home Democratic Chief Hakeem Jeffries urged that Democrats can be open to serving to Johnson maintain his job if he put a Ukraine assist invoice on the Home ground.
Rep. Jeffries mentioned when requested how Democrats would vote if a movement to vacate got here to the Home ground, “I’ve made the remark that I consider there are an inexpensive variety of members, if the Speaker had been to do the proper factor, that don’t consider that he ought to fall because of it.”
In different phrases, if Johnson needs to maintain his job, he must put a Ukraine assist invoice on the Home ground for a vote.
The top results of Greene’s try and boot Johnson may very properly be the passage of assist to Ukraine that she opposes.
Speaker Johnson will probably want Democratic votes is she goes ahead with the movement to vacate.
Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) instructed CNN why he would vote in opposition to the movement to vacate, “As a result of that is absurd. He’s getting kicked out for doing the proper factor. Getting the conserving the federal government open. It has two-thirds help of the congress, and the concept that he can be kicked out by these jokers is absurd.”
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A number of Dems signaling they’ll save Mike Johnson — particularly if he strikes on Ukraine assist.
Tom Suozzi tells me he’ll vote to save lots of him pic.twitter.com/8y53xNEb1j— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 22, 2024
If Mike Johnson needs to maintain his job, he higher give Democrats what they need, as a result of Marjorie Taylor Greene is able to kick him to the curb.
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